Not a father's rights issue per se....

[Brent]

....but everyone in the United States should know about this.


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Hi all:
Apparently, this was passed last week.
 
I know there has been much info uncovered by the "mentors" on using habeas corpus to free the detained "vessels" from J.A.I.L.  Perhaps this is a move to thwart us all on that front?
 
The first part of the message is a letter written to a news station and senators while the second part is the actual news article informing us of the stealth move.


 
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Subject: habeas corpus


    Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:45:49 -0600

    To:  WTPN Network  & Nebraska Senators                  12 November 2005,
    Saturday



    1.  This action by the US Senate, and introduced by Sen Lindsay Graham from
    South Carolina is one of the most despicable among the many breaches of the
    United States Constitution perpetrated by the government on the people of the
    United States.  It is totally unlawful and thus has no force of law except in
    the District of Columbia (the United States corporation) and possessions.
    However, this will redound to all the people in America.  Say goodbye to freedom
    and hello to the full blown police state.  YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY IS NOW BEING PUT
    AT RISK by this monster called the US government.  The courts are bad enough
    now, but with this they will be 100% star chambers.

    2. Written in the Constitution at Article I, Section 9, Clause 2, the
    fundamental "supreme" law of the land, is this:

           "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended,
    unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."  

              WHERE IS THE REBELLION??  WHERE IS THE INVASION??   THE CONGRESS
    CANNOT SUSPEND HABEAS CORPUS!!   IT IS UNLAWFUL.  This is serious stuff, people.
    Get the back lash going!  Especially you state senators -- !!.



    Klaus Becker, Speaker
    We the people of Nebraska
    (A 2nd House Network)
    [email protected]

    The more a Truth is told, the more it is believed.
    In God we trust . . . . with man you must verify.
    "An armed society is a polite society."
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    http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=B9iXnQkBmm&Content=664
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    Note:  Our government was founded as a republic not a democracy.  
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    GRAHAM AMENDMENT PASSES: HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED
    Bush's New Assault on Democracy: Habeas Corpus Stabbed in the Back

    Synopsis

    The Bush Administration, through an amendment introduced by South Carolina
    Senator Lindsey Graham, has just successfully stripped federal courts of
    jurisdiction to hear applications for habeas corpus brought by those
    unilaterally declared enemy combatants without any process and held by the U.S.
    indefinitely throughout the world and even in the United States.  This was
    accomplished by means of a last minute amendment to the Military Authorization
    Bill, brought up on the floor of the Senate without committee deliberations and
    virtually no advance warning to the American people that it was happening.

    It was not only human rights groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights,
    but many in the military or retired from the military who opposed the Graham
    amendment:  Judge John Gibbons, who argued the landmark CCR case Rasul v. Bush
    before the Supreme Court, John Hutson, Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center and
    former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy, and the National Institute for
    Military Justice, among others, wrote open letters to the Senate to oppose the
    dismantling of habeas corpus.

    The Graham amendment will create a thousand points of darkness across the globe
    where the United States will be free to hold people indefinitely without a
    hearing and beyond the reach of U.S. law and the checks and balances of the
    courts enshrined in our Constitution. The last time this country suspended
    habeas corpus was for the internment of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans
    during World War II, a travesty that is now universally recognized as a blot on
    our nation's history. The purpose of the writ of habeas corpus has always been
    to relieve those wrongfully held from the oppression of unchecked executive
    power.  The most reliable way to determine whether someone is properly held or a
    victim of injustice is to have a right to judicial review of the detention.
    This has been understood at least since the proclamation of the Magna Carta in
    1215.

    While the Administration and its supporters have tried to characterize the men
    being held at Guantánamo as the worst of the worst against all evidence, the
    fact is that even the military has admitted that they often apprehended the
    wrong people.  Most have no ties to Al Qaida, many were turned over to the U.S.
    for bounty, and many more were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.  If
    they have no way to appeal their innocence or their status, they will be left to
    rot in detention indefinitely.

    Senator Graham's jurisdiction-stripping efforts come as allegations of secret
    CIA detention facilities around the world dominate headlines; the Bush
    Administration has consistently sought to put itself above the law and evade
    oversight and accountability for torture and other abuse.  It is no secret that
    arbitrary indefinite detention and widespread prisoner mistreatment have taken
    and continue to take place at Guantánamo and other U.S.-run facilities.  The
    Graham Amendment will only serve to reinforce the growing perception in the
    world that the United States has become an enemy of human rights.

    As has been the practice of this Administration, this latest scheme was
    accomplished stealthily and in secret.  The Center for Constitutional Rights
    vows to continue to fight for the rule of law.  We will not allow American
    democracy to be eroded a little at a time, until, finally looking around, we can
    longer recognize what has become of this democratic nation.

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